OVERCAME BREWERY FUMES.
PECULIAR FATALITY.
(By Toleeraph.—Prcw Association.)
Christchurch; B'coeraber $
A- fatal accident occurred to-day at Mia Uiiiott Breweryi Bath'..Street, .the. viotim being a young man. named John Whitman Gray, 23 years of' age, who resided with .his parents at Sandyford Street, Sydenham. According to a statement, made.to the police it was Grey's duty to clean Out the vats by playing on them with hot water from the tide, so as to rid .them of gas. At 1.15 p.m. another employee, Victor Colcher, found deceased face downwards in thb' bottom of the Vat with.thehot water still running. When the body was found, there was. no.. evidence of fumes;,but appearahcei pointed to death being due to suffocation. A doctor was called in and pronounced life to bo extinct, and, .the body was moved tb.the morgue. . \ v ... ' ":. Deceased was last seen alive by Colcher at 12.5 p.m. when he was in.good,health an'd spirits: It is supposed that ie'waa overcome by gases and fell into the vat t&d was then Scalded by the hot water.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 4
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172OVERCAME BREWERY FUMES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 4
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